Reinventing Learning for the Always-On Generation: Strategies and Apps That Work - a guide to cultivate effective 21st century classrooms - Softcover

Ian Jukes; Ryan L. Schaaf; Nick Mohan

9781936763818: Reinventing Learning for the Always-On Generation: Strategies and Apps That Work - a guide to cultivate effective 21st century classrooms

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936763818 ISBN 13: 9781936763818

Publisher: Solution Tree, 2015

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WINNER OF THE 2016 IPPY AWARD - SILVER MEDAL IN EDUCATION (WORKBOOK/RESOURCE)

Benefits
*Understand how the digital generation's exposure to technology is rewiring their brains and the challenge this rewiring creates for educators.
*Identify learning attributes unique to 21st century students, and gain strategies to support the specific characteristics of digital learners.
*Recognize the strengths and weaknesses of different digital tools, and learn to use each in teaching, learning, and assessing.
*Learn why the digital generation must be engaged and taught differently than previous generations to ensure learning.
*Select the traditional teaching practices that can be integrated with digital technology to best educate students.

Description:
Cultivate effective 21st century classrooms. Teachers and administrators must respond to the digital bombardment students face to ensure their success in the 21st century world. Explore the differences in students' neurological processing from previous generations, investigate the nine critical attributes of digital learners, and discover practical strategies for making learning relevant, engaging, and fun through digital activities.

Contents

Foreword

Introduction: A Changing World

Chapter 1: Curriculum Standards, the Common Core, and Beyond

Chapter 2: What s Wrong With Kids Today?

Chapter 3: Kids Are Different

Chapter 4: A Need for Speed

Chapter 5: The Multitasking Mind

Chapter 6: EyeWorld

Chapter 7: Everyone Is Connected to Everyone and Everything

Chapter 8: Fast Pattern Reading

Chapter 9: Just-in-Case Versus Just-in-Time Learning

Chapter 10: Instant Versus Deferred Gratification

Chapter 11: Transfluency

Chapter 12: Learning Must Be Fun

Chapter 13: Time for a Change

References and Resources

Index

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About the Author:

Ian Jukes is the founder and executive director of the InfoSavvy Group, an international educational leadership consulting firm. He has been a teacher, school principal, district and provincial coordinator, writer, international consultant, university instructor, and keynote speaker. He has worked with clients in more than eighty countries and made more than ten thousand presentations. Ian has written or cowritten fifteen books and nine educational series. His most recent books are Teaching the Digital Generation: No More Cookie-Cutter High Schools (with Frank Kelly and Ted McCain, 2009), Living on the Future Edge: Windows on Tomorrow (with Ted McCain and Lee Crockett, 2010), Understanding the Digital Generation: Teaching and Learning in the New Digital Landscape (with Ted McCain and Lee Crockett, 2010), Literacy Is Not Enough: 21st Century Fluencies for the Digital Age (with Lee Crockett and Andrew Churches, 2011), and Learning Without Classrooms (with Frank Kelly and Ted McCain, 2015).

First and foremost, Ian is a passionate educational evangelist. From the beginning of his educational career, his focus has been on the compelling need to restructure our educational institutions so that they become relevant to the current and future needs of the digital generation-and to prepare learners for their future and not just our past.

Ryan L. Schaaf is an assistant professor of educational technology at Notre Dame of Maryland University, and a faculty associate for the Johns Hopkins University School of Education Graduate Program. He has more than fifteen years of experience in the field of education. Before higher education, Ryan was a public school teacher, instructional leader, curriculum designer, and technology integration specialist in Maryland. In 2007, he was nominated as Maryland Teacher of the Year.

Ryan has published several research articles related to the use of digital games as an effective instructional strategy in the classroom in New Horizons for Learning and the Canadian Journal of Action Research. His first book, Making School a Game Worth Playing: Digital Games in the Classroom, which he coauthored with Nicky Mohan, was published in 2014. He is currently working with Nicky on the sequel tentatively titled Game On: Using Digital Games for 21st Century Teaching, Learning, and Assessment. Ryan enjoys presenting sessions and keynotes about the potential for gaming in the classroom, the characteristics of 21st century learning, and emerging technologies and trends in education.

Nicky Mohan has been a classroom teacher, school and university administrator, instructional designer, business sector manager and trainer, and international speaker. At the University of Waikato, New Zealand, she designed and delivered courses and workshops based on research of best practices in teaching and learning. Since the early 2000s, she has made hundreds of presentations in more than a dozen countries.

Born in South Africa, a New Zealander by nationality, a Canadian by domicile, and a world citizen by choice, Nicky worked as the director of curriculum for the 21st Century Fluency Group, where she led a team of international writers in the development of curriculum materials that integrated 21st century skills into just-in-time teaching and learning (JiTTL) experiences that were relevant to both teachers and students. Nicky is currently the managing partner of LearningFutures21, an international educational consulting firm. Together with Ryan Schaaf, she has just published her first book, Making School a Game Worth Playing: Digital Games in the Classroom. She is currently working with Ryan on the sequel tentatively titled Game On: Using Digital Games for 21st Century Teaching, Learning, and Assessment.

Review:

Having to teach in the age of digital bombardment has created an enormous challenge for teachers. . . .This book is full of practical ideas about how to engage kids who have been fundamentally altered by online digital experiences. It is a lifeline for teachers dealing with all the pressures of modern classrooms who must now also figure out how to reach new generations of learners. --Ted McCain, Associate Director for Canada for the Thornburg Center

Jukes, Schaaf, and Mohan have hit the nail on the head. This book reads like a user's guide for the digital generation. Students may look the same, but their brains and learning styles have changed. Reinventing Learning for the Always on Generation validates that change and provides a bevy of useful tools and strategies on how to reach these learners. But it doesn't stop there. This book also provides insights into how we can stay connected with kids in an era of over-connectedness. --Carl Hooker, Director of Innovation & Digital Learning, Eanes Independent School District, Austin, Texas

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